Pronunciation Guide

[GrayOldDruid]

A couple of real-experience based guides that I KNOW some people NEED (follow the url and click on the audio to HEAR the right way to say it):

A scimitar http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/scimitar Pronunciation: \ˈsi-mə-tər, -ˌtär\
a saber having a curved blade with the edge on the convex side and used chiefly by Arabs and Turks

Notice the Sim-a-ter pronunciation. It is not a plus three SKIM-a-Tar of righteousness.

A Chameleon http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/chameleon Pronunciation: \kə-ˈmēl-yən\
Etymology:
Middle English camelion, from Middle French, from Latin chamaeleon, from Greek chamaileōn, from chamai on the ground + leōn lion
any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal Old World lizards with prehensile tail, independently movable eyeballs, and unusual ability to change the color of the skin

Notice the Ka-meal-e-on pronunciation. It is not a SHAM-e-lon tail you left in the chest for the Ranger.

Anyone else heard some painfully mispronounced words??

[Svetelana]

tum-ato/tom-ato


http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tomato

[QuantumFX]

+1 Tombs

[Svetelana]

This is the correct pronunciation of Khopesh.....


http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/cowpeas

[GrayOldDruid]

+1 Tombs

... so, does a plus one tomb give a bonus to resist being raised as undead? Or does it slow decay, maybe??
Oooh.. or is it a loot bonus? Breaking any coffin, crate, barrel or sarcophagus gives a bonus amount of Silver?

... and its "Ko-Pesh" like "Joe Pesci" without the 'ee' on the end... :D That is why it is such a bad-arse sword... its named after Joe.

[Tresha_D'Artet]

of all the things that could be posted about as being painful...this was a "best" for someone?

[GrayOldDruid]

of all the things that could be posted about as being painful...this was a "best" for someone?

wouldn't say "Best" but more like "Most Recent and frequent" But thanks for coming in and dissing the post (just bumping a post you didn't find useful higher up on the front page) instead of providing on-topic input that may have been useful or funny or interesting..\ :D

[Tresha_D'Artet]

sorry i didnt notice the humor or lack of in your post *hands you a +1 skimytar and 10 shamylon tails* :D

[yoyorobbo]

tum-ato/tom-ato


http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tomato
Freakin awesome!...I love this one.

(You say - I say)

[Oran_Lathor]

Waves of Fatigue... guy was pronouncing it like fat-eee-goo, hehe at first I didn't know what he was talking about.

[Tanka]

Drow.

I've played with a few people who called them Dro. Y'know, like "afro."

[Lorien_the_First_One]

It's "Agro" not "Argo" ... and it seems to be all ex WoW players who say I have the mobs "Argo"

[QuantumFX]

... so, does a plus one tomb give a bonus to resist being raised as undead? Or does it slow decay, maybe??

IDK. They always talk about +3 tombs being drops in the Reaver Raid but I've never seen em. I think they're something you can use against the Abbot. I put them in the same category as Sasquach and Eternal Wands of Stoneskin.

[Aranticus]

pronunciation or not. this has never been a big deal to me. yes we may have some bloopers (i still do not know a ton of words) here and there but i do not think its a biggie. many words can have different pronunciations due to their origin or the speaker's country. ie mexico is commonly pronounced as mex-c-co. this is the widely accepted way of pronouncing it but the more correct pronunciation is me-hi-co. so lets not dwell too much on it.......

[DoctorWhofan]

I butcher every name I run accross, including my own!!! SO am I on your nasty list?:D

[Cheg]

+3 Dockunt
+3 Doshunt.

[LA_MIKE]

..

[Hadrian]

One that annoys me a lot is hearing someone pronounce sigil phonetically instead of sijil.

[LOUDRampart]

I butcher every name I run accross, including my own!!! SO am I on your nasty list?:D

I think you're on the nasty list whether you mispronounce or not... /wink /wink ;);)

[DaveyCrockett]

House D
House P (obviously I don't mean just the letters)
uber (pronounced ubber (as in rubber))
pwned (prounced poned - the word is OWNED regardless of the **** p)
kukri (Cuck Ree)
Sigil (pronounced Sea Gull)
Ghosts of Perdition (Pronounced Ghosts of Pershun)
Chultholzz
Mentau


That's about all I can hate at this time of night/morning...

[Lillitheris]

This is what I usually hear when people try to pronounce my characters. It's not so much about the pronunciation, but it seems like the names themselves are hard to read or something.

Caius = Cassius, Saius or Calius. I really don't get it, it's only 5 letters long... rhymes with Gaius (Julius Caesar).
Aurelia = Aulerria.
Vibius = Vibe-ius.
Theodorus = just Theo.
Isidorus = surprisingly, this gets pronounced right quite often, or just as Isi.
Lucilla = the occasional Lukilla. Which would be a proper Latin pronunciation by the way, but let's not go there.
Iulia = E-ullya.

[LOUDRampart]

House D
House P (obviously I don't mean just the letters)
uber (pronounced ubber (as in rubber))
pwned (prounced poned - the word is OWNED regardless of the **** p)
kukri (Cuck Ree)
Sigil (pronounced Sea Gull)
Ghosts of Perdition (Pronounced Ghosts of Pershun)
Chultholzz
Mentau


That's about all I can hate at this time of night/morning...

prounced instead of pronounced.... ;)

[Gaermain]

...listening to a sorc go on and on about his uber charisma - pronouncing charisma incorrectly every single time.

[moorewr]

Drow.

I've played with a few people who called them Dro. Y'know, like "afro."

I've into this a lot over the years. The "droh" crowd are pretty insistent that they are in the right, too, and since the word has a very shaky etymology we'll all have to just agree to disagree.

Not much to add about in game mangling, but I I get annoyed about nuclear, foliage, dalek, and jaguar.

PS: You should hear what people do to my character names! "He's a hater?" lolz.

[moorewr]

FYI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drow


Drow (pronounced either /draʊ/, rhymes with "now", or /droʊ/, rhymes with "throw") is a mythical elf-like creature in Scottish folklore which lived in caves and forged magical metal work.

[Bashiba]

A newbie friend of mine called a composite Shortbow - a Composition short bow.

The one the I hear semi regular is people saying argo instead of agro.

[jdawg70]

yeah, I hate when people call my toon it's name..Demonblade;
instead of calling it the ultra gimped WF who's stealing kills and
all the heals from the cleric and causing him to twitch bad!
Yeah I soooo hate that....LOL!

[Glenalth]

Menechtarun.

Oddly, Firefox suggests "Schenectady" as the proper spelling.

[BlueLightBandit]

I dunno... us ex-Aerenal peeps are kinda used to people mispronouncing things...

If worse comes to worst I'll just get my rouge to work on it and get back with you. He is gonna hafta drink a Ghallahanda Distaste first though, so he can get back his mana.

[Hexum]

I've into this a lot over the years. The "droh" crowd are pretty insistent that they are in the right, too, and since the word has a very shaky etymology we'll all have to just agree to disagree.

Not much to add about in game mangling, but I I get annoyed about nuclear, foliage, dalek, and jaguar.

PS: You should hear what people do to my character names! "He's a hater?" lolz.

Ohhh... like saying JAG-WIRE. :mad:

[Missing_Minds]

Drow.

I've played with a few people who called them Dro. Y'know, like "afro."

emm... could you pronounce this word for me then? "row" I mean I'm pretty certain you do not pronounce it like "ouch". Ya know...

Heck, I've heard some people pronounce it as if they were dragon riders from Pern. D'row.


Also, how many people do you hear pronounce "Tangleroot" as "tangleFOOT"?

[GreyRogue]

Also, how many people do you hear pronounce "Tangleroot" as "tangleFOOT"?
The only time I've ever heard this was from the DM voice. :p

[Staedtler]

I'm surprised how many people own adamantium weapons.

I'd like to know where they drop.

[Jeannie]

Someone offered my rogue googles of minute (as in 60 seconds in a minute) seeing.
I couldn't figure out what the **** she was talking about, but it was still a nice gesture :)
Now that I have a pair I understand.....

[moorewr]

emm... could you pronounce this word for me then? "row" I mean I'm pretty certain you do not pronounce it like "ouch". Ya know...


'DRAU' is the normal pronunciation.

[Svetelana]

pronunciation or not. this has never been a big deal to me. yes we may have some bloopers (i still do not know a ton of words) here and there but i do not think its a biggie. many words can have different pronunciations due to their origin or the speaker's country. ie mexico is commonly pronounced as mex-c-co. this is the widely accepted way of pronouncing it but the more correct pronunciation is me-hi-co. so lets not dwell too much on it.......


This post makes the most sense here....(Except for my first one of course) :)~

To hear me, who is from Brooklyn, say TOME, you would swear to your mother that I said TOMB.....

Don't forget to feed yer dawg tanight!

Happy New Year!!

[Archetype48]

pronounced

"give it a rest"

origin

Some gamers take great delight at the frustration of others, some have a sense of humor, and others just don't care. Those that do, use this term to deflect unwarranted attention to details that may not, overly, matter to them.

[Tanka]

emm... could you pronounce this word for me then? "row" I mean I'm pretty certain you do not pronounce it like "ouch". Ya know...

Heck, I've heard some people pronounce it as if they were dragon riders from Pern. D'row.
Drow, rhyming with cow.

[Kulhwch]

One that annoys me a lot is hearing someone pronounce sigil phonetically instead of sijil.

Either pronunciation is actually acceptable, although sij-il is usually listed as preferred.


FWIW, no one pronounces my characters' names correctly, either.

[MysticTheurge]

One that annoys me a lot is hearing someone pronounce sigil phonetically instead of sijil.

According to the American Heritage Dictionary (http://www.bartleby.com/61/83/S0398300.html) both "sijil" and "sigil" are acceptable pronounciations.


emm... could you pronounce this word for me then? "row" I mean I'm pretty certain you do not pronounce it like "ouch". Ya know...

Sure I do.


row /raʊ/ Spelled Pronunciation[rou]
–noun
1. a noisy dispute or quarrel; commotion.
2. noise or clamor.
–verb (used without object)
3. to quarrel noisily.
–verb (used with object)
4. Chiefly British. to upbraid severely; scold.
[Origin: 1740–50; orig. uncert.]

;)

[GrayOldDruid]

emm... could you pronounce this word for me then? "row" I mean I'm pretty certain you do not pronounce it like "ouch". Ya know...

Heck, I've heard some people pronounce it as if they were dragon riders from Pern. D'row.


Also, how many people do you hear pronounce "Tangleroot" as "tangleFOOT"?

Only the DM voiceover... :D listen closely...

[Kraldor]

Sigil - Sea-Gel
Kukri - Kukeery
Falchion - Falcon
Those three are by far some of the worst I've heard.

[amysrevenge]

Someone offered my rogue googles of minute (as in 60 seconds in a minute) seeing.
I couldn't figure out what the **** she was talking about, but it was still a nice gesture :)
Now that I have a pair I understand.....


I can certainly see how "googles" would give a bonus to Search though...

My own favourite is people sticking an 'r' in the spelling (and pronunciation) of Ghallanda - "Ghallandra". Reminds me of my mother-in-law, who says "sandridge" instead of "sandwich".

Mike

[Madmonkey2]

Ex-pe-dish-us NOT Ex-pee-dee-us, you **** infernal illiterates.

[lostinjapan]

Before the server merger, I remember running a pug quest on my fighter Pertinacity who, at the time, was named Tenacity. A guy in the group called her ten-uh-city the entire quest..... :confused:

I expect people to mangle Iathenu (my original DDO character), Xalixis (layover from a name I used in another game) and Amadare (japanese for raindrop), but Tenacity?

[Olithian]

A guy in my guild pronounces The Crucible as The Crudible. I really want to smack him :rolleyes:.

[TunrikRylogar]

Before the server merger, I remember running a pug quest on my fighter Pertinacity who, at the time, was named Tenacity. A guy in the group called her ten-uh-city the entire quest..... :confused:

I expect people to mangle Iathenu (my original DDO character), Xalixis (layover from a name I used in another game) and Amadare (japanese for raindrop), but Tenacity?

Now I am kind of curious as to how you would like those names pronounced. My guesses would be:

yah-THAY-noo
SHAL-ick-sis
ahm-ah-dah-ray

Am I close?

[GrayOldDruid]

A guy in my guild pronounces The Crucible as The Crudible. I really want to smack him :rolleyes:.

... Hmm.. I dunno... the Crucible Quest is Crud... :D May want to try the swim again, since I found some Swim +11 boots.

[honkuimushi]

Now I am kind of curious as to how you would like those names pronounced. My guesses would be:

yah-THAY-noo
SHAL-ick-sis
ahm-ah-dah-ray

Am I close?

My guesses would be
EE- yah- thay- new

ZAL- licks- sis

The Japanese I'm sure about. You're close.
ah- mah- dah- ray

All Japanese syllables are either a vowel, or a consonant and a vowel. The one exeption is n. Sometimes that consonant sound is represented in Roman letters as 2 letters, but it is considered 1 sound in Japanese. There are no silent letters and the pronounciation of consonants and vowels are remarkably consistent. So, to pronounce my forum name, It's ho-n-ku-ee-moo-she. But when you say it fast the ho-n gets blended a bit and the ku-ee becomes somthing of a dipthong. It means bookworm by the way.


2 of my new characters have been giving alot of people problems.
Kogane: koh- gah- neh
It means gold in Japanese. He's a WF. I hear koh- gain a lot.

The other is Gneiss (nice). He's a dwarf. Gneiss is a type of rock. Of of the most common types of Gneiss is metamorphic granite.
I hear all sorts of things. Some people give up and just call me G.

[lostinjapan]

YATH-en-oo
zuh-LIKS-is
ah-mah-DAH-rey

accent on the capitalized syllable.

[infernalmal]

My favorite is when people say: orchard of the mac-ka-bree

lol

Silly silent "re"s get em everytime heh.

You can say macabre w/ the re @ the end but it's hard to right it's like "ray" but with less volume and really fast. So if you don't wanna sound like a foo, just pronounce it like "Maacob".

[Yvonne_Blacksword]

" \ ä \ as o in mop" (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:popWin%28%27/cgi-bin/audio.pl?mop00001.wav=mop%27%29) ~~(http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/scimitar==>pronunciation symbols link)
dude...I am a valley girl.
Aff-tur I get rill-ly (correct cali "pronunce" of really) uh-noy-ying by cawl-ling the cov-ur-ing of my house a roof ( roo like rue) the not a rough (sounds like ruff)...
that "a" sounds like tar to me...more like
\ http://www.m-w.com/images/pronguide/odot.gif \ as aw in law (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:popWin%28%27/cgi-bin/audio.pl?law00001.wav=law%27%29)..
r...tar...sweating the small stuff.
(and I cannot tell the difference between the vowel sounds of the o min mop and the a in law...ooopsie!)

now pronounce Byeshk for me.
one syllable or three?

hum....?

den-ee-ith or den-ith
kun-dar-ick or kun-dark
jor-ask-owe?
fee-are-lan or fill-are-an?(lol...my bad.)

kopsh or koe-pesch

ant-arc-tic or an-arc ic

axe-e-oh-mat-ic or axe-ma-tat-tuh-kick (lol)

mem-on-ick or new-mon-ic?

muh-nan-ic-ulls or man-ic-ulls?

and how do you pronounce Minos Legens? is it tuff-ness-helm or he-vy-fort-helm?
!!!!!?????
lol
as for Macabre...I blame the french...it is their word!
muh-cob-bruh
like chupacabra

[TunrikRylogar]

I wonder if there is an official ruling. I have always pronounced byeshk as two syllables at my tabletop game.

BYE - eshk

[MysticTheurge]

I wonder if there is an official ruling. I have always pronounced byeshk as two syllables at my tabletop game.

BYE - eshk

I'm pretty sure that's the semi-official guideline pronunciation from Keith Baker.

[MrCow]

as for Macabre...I blame the french...it is their word!

Bleh, I hate French words and butcher them on a daily basis (out of a disagreement with the whole French letter/sound conversions). How the heck is a word with an -ault ending supposed to turn into the sound of an "o", for instance?

[Mark_G]

For all of you Footpads spelling yourself rouge instead of rogue. Rouge = red (in French).

I hear folks gives lots of variations on the word Adamantine as well. I pronounce it add-a-MAN-teen. Anyone know the official pronunciation?

[LOUDRampart]

For all of you Footpads spelling yourself rouge instead of rogue. Rouge = red (in French).

I hear folks gives lots of variations on the word Adamantine as well. I pronounce it add-a-MAN-teen. Anyone know the official pronunciation?

Back in the early '80s when we played PnP in College, our DM pronounced it as Uh-dam-ma-tight. I still say that occasionally and then get corrected by the pronunciation police...:D

[Jeannie]

I can certainly see how "googles" would give a bonus to Search though...

Mike

LOL! But we're not laughing at people's spelling ability :)

[PhoenixRajoNight]

Even tho I dont know why, and think its kind of a silly post ill add a few, but they are not in-game related.

Egypt Edj-upt its suppose to be ee-jipt
Glacier Glass-sher its suppose to be Glai-shur
Schedule Shed-jual its Sked-jual for the last time

[Attomic]

According to the American Heritage Dictionary (http://www.bartleby.com/61/83/S0398300.html) both "sijil" and "sigil" are acceptable pronounciations.

Ah, the good ol' American Disinheritance - the McDonalds of English dictionaries. ;)

Webster: \si-jil\

[Ro-Longo]

Had an old guildie that could never get Paladin worded corectly.

He would al was say it "Pal-LAD-in" in stead of "Pal-le-den"

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/paladin

[GrayOldDruid]

Running a quest and I hear "Okay, I'll go grab his R-go."

R-go ?? Come on!! Aggro.... Aggro. Ag - grow

This must be why people don't seem to understand "Block in the doorway" and "I'll pull them back here" and "stay put" and "Don't go into the middle" and other phrases like that.

[TreknaQudane]

Ex-pe-dish-us NOT Ex-pee-dee-us

Thats pretty much my peeve right there.

[Mistinarperadnacles]

My bard Cleidh gets called Clyde all the time. I can see why, but its from Cleidh Mor (which is the gaelic of Claymore)

Just for my own sake, and because I'm interested, who mentioned about Japanese not having silent letters? What about "desu?"

[spyyder976]

1. Folks calling all scimitars "smiters"-they should be so lucky...

2. I had an argument about the below word with a really intelligent friend of mine who insisted that they messed up and should have called the spell Expeditious Retreat...Expedious Retreat instead. Finally after about 30 minutes, I thankfully changed his mind...I wish I could have expedited his reasoning sooner.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Madmonkey2
Ex-pe-dish-us NOT Ex-pee-dee-us

Thats pretty much my peeve right there.

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[Samy]

pwned (prounced poned - the word is OWNED regardless of the **** p)
I'm sorry, if you mean "owned", then type "owned".

If you type "pwned", it's not pronounced the same way. There is no silent word-initial p in English. If you put a 'p' in there, then it's pronounced.

[Cahira]

If you type "pwned", it's not pronounced the same way. There is no silent word-initial p in English. If you put a 'p' in there, then it's pronounced.

Oh noes!! I've been mispronouncing psychiatry all this time! ;)

(Incidently, I say "powned." I just thought of a silent word-initial p so I had to comment. :D )



I have a guildie that I refuse to run Gwylan's stand with unless he pronounces it in one of 2 pronunciations that I'll accept. I refuse to accept "Gwyn-lan's" but will accept it pronounced with either a long i or a short i sound.

And most of my guild pronounces Byeshk as "Bi-shek." (short i)

[MysticTheurge]

Oh noes!! I've been mispronouncing psychiatry all this time! ;)

Everyone knows it's puh-sai-kai-uh-tree.

And kuh-nig-uht. Especially if they're english.

[RazorrX]

Drow, rhyming with cow.

OR

Drow (pronounced either /draʊ/, rhymes with "now", or /droʊ/, rhymes with "throw")

Drow rhyming with Crow

[Hambo]

This is the correct pronunciation of Khopesh.....


http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/cowpeas

I saw a show in one of the Discovery channels about Egyptian "Super Weapons" that included the Khopesh... Having never seen one I found it interesting that it's really a shallow sickle with a hook shape on the end, except it's sharpened on the outside.

They demonstrated the usage, showing that the hook shaped tip was used for snagging the top of the opponent's shield and yanking it down prior to thrusting it at the foe, generally at the face/neck.

BTW, to stay on topic, the Brit who was narrating the show pronounced it as "ko-PEESH"

[Hambo]

This is the correct pronunciation of Khopesh.....


http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/cowpeas

I just checked out both pronunciations at this site. The popup ads where hi-larious!

When I selected "toe-may-toe" the popup had a semi-naked woman (wrapped in a sheet, somewhat) with the caption "Who is posing naked in [magazine name] this week?"

When I selected "toe-mah-toe" the popup was a recycling ad. :D:D:D

[Hambo]

I butcher every name I run accross, including my own!!! SO am I on your nasty list?:D

What part gives you problems? Doctor, Who or Fan? :D:D:D

[Hambo]

House D
House P (obviously I don't mean just the letters)
uber (pronounced ubber (as in rubber))
pwned (prounced poned - the word is OWNED regardless of the **** p)
kukri (Cuck Ree)
Sigil (pronounced Sea Gull)
Ghosts of Perdition (Pronounced Ghosts of Pershun)
Chultholzz
Mentau


That's about all I can hate at this time of night/morning...

Isn't this correct? I always thought people were just mis-spelling how "rubber" their characters are...:rolleyes:

[Hambo]

" \ ä \ as o in mop" (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:popWin%28%27/cgi-bin/audio.pl?mop00001.wav=mop%27%29) ~~(http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/scimitar==>pronunciation symbols link)
dude...I am a valley girl.
Aff-tur I get rill-ly (correct cali "pronunce" of really) uh-noy-ying by cawl-ling the cov-ur-ing of my house a roof ( roo like rue) the not a rough (sounds like ruff)...
that "a" sounds like tar to me...more like
\ http://www.m-w.com/images/pronguide/odot.gif \ as aw in law (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:popWin%28%27/cgi-bin/audio.pl?law00001.wav=law%27%29)..
r...tar...sweating the small stuff.
(and I cannot tell the difference between the vowel sounds of the o min mop and the a in law...ooopsie!)

now pronounce Byeshk for me. I'd say 2... By-eshk
one syllable or three?

hum....?

den-ee-ith or den-ith Den-EETH
kun-dar-ick or kun-dark First choice
jor-ask-owe? That's how I pronounce it. (Could be worse... Germainc J, anyone? That'd make it "Yor-a**-cow") :D
fee-are-lan or fill-are-an?(lol...my bad.) I look at it and pronounce it "Fairlane", like the old Ford... :rolleyes:

kopsh or koe-pesch I've heard it as "ko-PEESH" on a documentary, but the narrator was a Brit :D

ant-arc-tic or an-arc ic First choice

axe-e-oh-mat-ic or axe-ma-tat-tuh-kick (lol) First choice... root word is "Axiom" (Ax-EE-om)

mem-on-ick or new-mon-ic? This one is actually pronounced "nem-ON-ic"

muh-nan-ic-ulls or man-ic-ulls? Man-ih-culls

and how do you pronounce Minos Legens? is it tuff-ness-helm or he-vy-fort-helm?
!!!!!?????
lol
as for Macabre...I blame the french...it is their word!
muh-cob-bruh The final "re" is mostly silent, kind of an exhalation.
like chupacabra Except that "Chupacabra" is Spanish, wher the "ra" is pronounced.


Responses in GREEN

[Hambo]

Even tho I dont know why, and think its kind of a silly post ill add a few, but they are not in-game related.

Egypt Edj-upt its suppose to be ee-jipt
Glacier Glass-sher its suppose to be Glai-shur
Schedule Shed-jual its Sked-jual for the last time

Unless your'e British. :D

[Hambo]

Running a quest and I hear "Okay, I'll go grab his R-go."

R-go ?? Come on!! Aggro.... Aggro. Ag - grow

This must be why people don't seem to understand "Block in the doorway" and "I'll pull them back here" and "stay put" and "Don't go into the middle" and other phrases like that.

Funny... Before I started playingg MMOs (DDO is my first) "Agro" had to do with the business of growing fruits and veggies, but then again I AM in the "Big Valley" in Ca. :D

[Talon_Moonshadow]

Drow.

I've played with a few people who called them Dro. Y'know, like "afro."

Crow

or

Ow!

[Hambo]

I'm sorry, if you mean "owned", then type "owned".

If you type "pwned", it's not pronounced the same way. There is no silent word-initial p in English. If you put a 'p' in there, then it's pronounced.

Pneumonia
Pnumatic
Psycho (-tic, -logy, -logist, -logical)
Psuedo (-nym)
Psoriasis

Probably more.

Consider yourself "pwned" :D:D:D

[itsmezed72]

Because it is one of my pet peeves, here is an excerpt out of the DnD faq noting official pronunciation of Drow as per Wizards of the Coast:

How do you pronounce...?

Here are some commonly mispronounced words and their dictionary pronunciations where they are available and common-practice pronunciations or TSR rulings where they not. For more general pronunciation help, see the article "Ay pronunseeAYshun gyd" by Frank Mentzer in Dragon #93 (Jan. 1985).

Drow: DRAU (as in drowsy; rhymes with now and how)


I can't help it... hearing "Droh' has grated at me for almost 30 years :p

[Kreaper]

emm... could you pronounce this word for me then? "row" I mean I'm pretty certain you do not pronounce it like "ouch". Ya know...



It doesn't really matter. Row doesn't have the right number of consonants and vowels. Trying to compare it to other words does not help either. Pronounce these two more closely related words: plow/crow


I have two pet peeves. The first is ogre being pronounced org. Some of the earlier mentioned pronunciation I can kind of see. Switching two letters around during your pronunciation is, well, ********. My second pet peeve is the fact that no matter how hard I look, I can't find any Adamantium weapons or armor. :mad: :rolleyes:

[Ron]

One you guys can help me with.

Djinni

I've always thought the word was pronounced without the D, as in "I Dream of Jeanie".

However, I've heard it pronounced Dajinn or Dajinni so many times, I wonder if I'm not the one that has it wrong?

[Kraldor]

One you guys can help me with.

Djinni

I've always thought the word was pronounced without the D, as in "I Dream of Jeanie".

However, I've heard it pronounced Dajinn or Dajinni so many times, I wonder if I'm not the one that has it wrong?

I'm pretty sure that it's pronounced your way, thats why in a lot of places you see it spelled as "Genie" instead of "Djinni".

[Samy]

Pneumonia
Pnumatic
Psycho (-tic, -logy, -logist, -logical)
Psuedo (-nym)
Psoriasis

Probably more.

Consider yourself "pwned" :D:D:D

Thanks! I stand corrected!

In the light of this, I suppose "pwned" should then be pronounced "wned", then. I still don't see where it'd suddenly spawn an 'o' in there. "Pneumonia" doesn't become "oneumonia" when its silent p disappears and "psycho" doesn't become "osycho".

[moorewr]

p is just substituted for the o in L33T, but in fact it's cool because w is nearly identical to the koine lower case omega.. the greek long o.

also, dj has long been used in translations to designate which of our 'g' sounds is intended.

[Mookie_Mashfoot]

Ok, how 'bout the way some people pronounce the spell 'Recitation'?

I was in a group with my friend the other day and they pronounced it REE-citation instead of REH-citation. I guess I can understand this one, but I remember from my recitation classes from universtity it's correct pronunciation.

[query]

personal bias goes out to my main PC name: Cerulean Blue Shadow.

The last two parts they get, but I have heard every butchering by players and sometimes NEVER even the right way when I spell it phonetically for them and the mic people are SAYING it to the person: SIR-ILL-E-AN (I say like the color quite a few times, and some people even assume it's from that one X-files episode [it's not].)


You know where it's from? It's from the dang HILLS you can go to, and THAT I hear butchered a whole lot LESS for some reason even when they are SPELLED the same!


And you want to find Adamantium? Stop looking for meteor veins and start looking for Wolverine.

But my favorite isn't even a mispronouncement, but a misspelling which got its own thread before the big purge. The mighty Delera's Tomb (not tome, NOW it's tomb) end reward martial greataxe CARNIFLEX!


Kill baddies and work on those abs!


I am STILL chuckling about it...ow, Chuck Norris just punched me (with that fist under his beard) and I stopped.

[HeavenlyCloud]

Being of another country, i found this thread very informative.

[Tourette]

House P - one of the Wayward Lobster Quests - Info is Key, I think - the DM narrator says "tell the House Phiarlan <pron FAIR_LANE> representative" - can't tell you how many different ways I have heard this name said. Ugh.

[Andoir]

One you guys can help me with.

Djinni

I've always thought the word was pronounced without the D, as in "I Dream of Jeanie".

However, I've heard it pronounced Dajinn or Dajinni so many times, I wonder if I'm not the one that has it wrong?

Without the "D" if you're talking in singular.
With the "D" if you're talking in plural.

[Dracolich]

I think the many different ways people pronounce things makes the game more enjoyable for me. I know I must mispronounce things more then once. For example the first year the game was out I mispronounced Gwylans stand I dont know how many times. One time in guild chat I misspelled it 3 times in the same paragraph, three different ways. I used to call it Gwendalins stand haha.

Oh on a side note, were the heck did the term "Pike" come from? to me it makes no sense and the word itself bears no resemblence to being lazy and or late to move in a quest.

[MysticTheurge]

Without the "D" if you're talking in singular.
With the "D" if you're talking in plural.

I've always said "gin" singular and "genie" plural.

[Gornin]

I think the many different ways people pronounce things makes the game more enjoyable for me. I know I must mispronounce things more then once. For example the first year the game was out I mispronounced Gwylans stand I dont know how many times. One time in guild chat I misspelled it 3 times in the same paragraph, three different ways. I used to call it Gwendalins stand haha.

Oh on a side note, were the heck did the term "Pike" come from? to me it makes no sense and the word itself bears no resemblence to being lazy and or late to move in a quest.

Probably from the phrase " he is a piker compared to ____" meaning small time or insignificant. So, if you're piking, you aren't contributing or are not important to the outcome of the situation.

[Gornin]

I've always said "gin" singular and "genie" plural.

Correct, according to my Arabic speaking friends.

[Dark_Helmet]

A couple of real-experience based guides that I KNOW some people NEED (follow the url and click on the audio to HEAR the right way to say it):

Anyone else heard some painfully mispronounced words??

Yeah, I love when tome \ˈtōm\ (as in Rome) being pronounced as tomb \ˈt&#252;m\ (as in womb)


Gelatinous Cube --- Jello \ˈje-(ˌ)lō\


For all my friends in Australia (I will be outback there soon ;)):

Aluminum - \ə-ˈl&#252;-mə-nəm\ not al&#183;u&#183;min&#183;i&#183;um \ˌal-yə-ˈmi-nē-əm\

:D

[Brummbar]

I have to weigh in also....

:)

So I have this Drow, Sorc.

His name is Schelshokt ....

Shell Shocked .... you know.. because of the MASSIVE, EMPOWERED, MAXIMIZED Fireballs, Magic missles, and Lightning Bolts I send out as artillery in advance of the infantry rushing in ( Also know as Tanks, or meat shields... :) )...... shell shocked monsters... :) Seemed logical to me.

But his name gets butchered soo often it's silly.. This one funny female cleric I've run with a time or two calls me sheckel shot ... heheh..

Schelshokt for the win!

[Bagster]

One you guys can help me with.

Djinni

I've always thought the word was pronounced without the D, as in "I Dream of Jeanie".

However, I've heard it pronounced Dajinn or Dajinni so many times, I wonder if I'm not the one that has it wrong?

This is a hard sound for English speakers to make. It tends to come out sounding jin-ee or zheen-ee. The correct pronunciation is dzhin-ee.

Let me back up for a moment and help you with that sound. When you make a d sound your tongue comes to rest just above your teeth. When you make a j sound your tongue comes to rest at the top of your upper gum line (approx.) With Djinni, your tongue starts just above your teeth and slides up slightly with no syllabic pause.

Just for the record, I personally cannot do it. I usually say zhin-ee. Which starts my tongue between d and j and allowing a slight amount of air through.

Reference:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/djinn


And Djin is singular and Djinni is plural.

[Bagster]

Probably from the phrase " he is a piker compared to ____" meaning small time or insignificant. So, if you're piking, you aren't contributing or are not important to the outcome of the situation.

"The term is strongly associated with itinerant life and constant travel: pikey is directly derived from pike which, circa 1520, meant to "go away from, to go on" and related to the words turnpike (toll-road) and pike-man (toll-collector)" Quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikey

Not sure if this is definitiveness, but was a good read.

[TheBroken_JPK]

I'm guilty of the tomes and scimitar mispronunciations. Also, Orchard of the Macabre. Yea, that took me awhile to get down.

[Aloro]

Schedule Shed-jual its Sked-jual for the last time

The Brits pronounce it "shed-yule". It's fine to correct a mispronunciation but it's wise to be aware that the English language didn't originate in America. British spellings and pronunciations are also correct. ;)

[Aloro]

My bard Cleidh gets called Clyde all the time. I can see why, but its from Cleidh Mor (which is the gaelic of Claymore)

Just for my own sake, and because I'm interested, who mentioned about Japanese not having silent letters? What about "desu?"

A 'u' that comes after or between unvoiced consonants is typically silent in Japanese.

[Aloro]

But my favorite isn't even a mispronouncement, but a misspelling which got its own thread before the big purge. The mighty Delera's Tomb (not tome, NOW it's tomb) end reward martial greataxe CARNIFLEX!


Kill baddies and work on those abs!


I am STILL chuckling about it...ow, Chuck Norris just punched me (with that fist under his beard) and I stopped.

Carniflex was the original name of that item. It was later changed, I assume to reference the Kipling poem about The Undertaker's Horse.

[Illiain]

+3 Dockunt



Does this give you a 15% better chance to shoot the dog? Those guns never did aim well.

[Resilian]

Minos Legends

also my characters

Splodethem and heal you = Splode them and heal you

I get Splod-ith-em, Splod, Splot..never Splode lol

Zaeken = Zay-ken. I get called Zack a lot.

Also anyone notice that it's always people with southern accents messing stuff up? I actually read all your mispronunciations in a southern accent lmao..

[t0r012]

scimitar sorry I'm broken on this one I read it way back in the day when playing PnP and started saying sim - ah - tar. It was many many years later that I heard the correct si-me-ter so I am forever stuck , no matter how hard I try it will always be that way for me.

falchion much the same to me will always be fal-schon instead of the correct fall-chen

===============

as to the "Pike" I always assumed it had to do with the polearm wielder as you just set your pike and wait.

[incineration]

why must necromancers cast animate thread???? can't we just let sleeping '07 threads lie?

[dormetheus]

dzhinn
adamanTEEN (I also accept TYNE)
aluminium is actually the original pronunciation of this word, but I'm too American
Simitar (I will always pronounce it this way)
Fal-schun (most of the time. I pronounce it slightly different every time)
Piking is when you just stand there, as a person might do if they're holding against a charge
Dau-cent or Dough-cent ? I'm not sure on this one. I say Dau-cent
Drau and Dro are both equally valid

[Hobgoblin]

why must necromancers cast animate thread???? can't we just let sleeping '07 threads lie?

well now you know why they always call them evil necromancers.

hob

[Kominalito]

emm... could you pronounce this word for me then? "row" I mean I'm pretty certain you do not pronounce it like "ouch". Ya know...


a "row" - pronounced like "cow" is a loud argument.


and i'm pretty sure scimitar is pronounced SIM-eh-tar. its not spelled scimAtar.

[NinjaCereal]

Zawabi's Refuge. I've heard people pronounce it Zan-za-bees *shudders*

Also people often pronounce my main character's name wrong.
Lrel
It's luh-REL
But I got enough people saying el-rel, ly-rel, and ar-el that I added how to pronounce it to my character's bio.

[Grecan]

It's an inherent problem with English language.

Cause

a) the same letters/combinations are pronounced differently in different words (and even in the same word) - examples: "radar", "sky" and "tiny", "tiny" and "silk"

b) the opposite, in many cases, different letters/combos are pronounced the same way with others - examples: "and" and "end", "silly", "lie" and "sky"

c) the same words/letters are pronounced differently in different locations - example: "bus" in L.A. and Edinburgh

d) .....

e) ~profit~

[icekinslayer]

plOW, cOW, nOW, OW, brOWn, hOW, fOWl, pOW, wOW, allOW....


rOW, shOW, grOW, stOW, flOW, blOW, lOW, glOW....


hmmm, english is hard....

[English_Warrior]

There is a commercial over here in the USA that annoys me everytime I see it.

Its for 'Le Cordon Bleu' culinary college.

And I'll be dammed if they don't pronouce the 'bleu' as the word 'blue' every single time.

How can you mess up the pronunciation of your own business name!!

[Alabore]

Being of another country, i found this thread very informative.

Quite indeed.
Entertaining too.

...

Odd bit of trivia: over here they usually say "droh" and in "grow".
Or... at least I think it's "grow".

Learning written English was a thing.
But there is a multiverse of subtle nuances in its spoken varieties that simply dazzle the mind.

...

So.
Droh.

[Mr_Ed7]

Would like to add my 2 cp but...

I have to go and milk the ko.
The ko goes moo.

[Aloro]

aluminium is actually the original pronunciation of this word, but I'm too American

Actually, it was originally called alumium, then aluminum by the first scientist to isolate it. An anonymous pedant suggested adding the extra 'i' to make it sound more classical (i.e. Make it sound more like sodium and potassium).

[Absolute-Omniscience]

Floccinaucinihilipilification

It just stirs my pot that no one knows how to pronunce it. :D

[der_kluge]

The one that threw me a while back was "Panacea". I can't remember how they pronounced it, but it was a massive butchery of the word.

It is "pan-uh-see-uh"

[stoolcannon]

There is a commercial over here in the USA that annoys me everytime I see it.

Its for 'Le Cordon Bleu' culinary college.

And I'll be dammed if they don't pronouce the 'bleu' as the word 'blue' every single time.

How can you mess up the pronunciation of your own business name!!

Because American's pronounce things American style and we don't need none o' that preeetenshus Fraench stuff round here.

Le Cordon Blue sounds better (in English) than Le Cordon bleu (I couldn't even muster a good phonetic representation of it in simple terms).


Seriously though it does sound rather stupid when someone is speaking English and they suddenly slip into a Spanish accent just because they are saying "taco" or "burrito". I see newscasters doing it all the time just because they feel like they owe some sort of honor to their spanish heritage to say "burrito" with a big old rolling R in the middle. It sounds really stupid in the middle of a non-accented English sentence. "And in today's news a man was killed on I-17 after he rolled his car while reaching for a "burrrrrrrrreeto" he had dropped on the floorboard of his car". Makes me lol and want to punch the person's face every time.

My wife has a nice Le Creuset dutch oven and I call it a Lay Croo-set not La Crooos-eh as would be the proper French pronunciation.

I know the difference but I'd sound like a pretentious d-bag if I chose to say it freench style imo

I make a very strong point of pronouncing the english language correctly but when it comes to Foreign words interspersed I tend to incline towards just using the commonly accepted English variant.

[stoolcannon]

The one that threw me a while back was "Panacea". I can't remember how they pronounced it, but it was a massive butchery of the word.

It is "pan-uh-see-uh"

I've read it as pan-A-see-uh so I'm glad to see the proper pronunciation.

[Arkadios]

I think the worst one is

Al-oo-min-um

It's al-ah-min-e-yum how is that so hard to understand?

(aluminium)

[knobaroo]

Dreamspitter, no "L" poeple.
Although I bet the devs just misspelled it :P

[stoolcannon]

Dreamspitter, no "L" poeple.
Although I bet the devs just misspelled it :P

Is there an L or isn't there? I said spitter for a long time then started saying splitter when everyone else was. Now I'm confooosed,

[stoolcannon]

I think the worst one is

Al-oo-min-um

It's al-ah-min-e-yum how is that so hard to understand?

(aluminium)

Sorry but Americans have taken over and standardized English. No more colours, no more alyoo-min-e-yum, no more shedyools. From now on you will specialize (note the Z) in using American English.

Thanks,

The yanks

[NaturalHazard]

yes (you all) I keep hearing yall I didnt even realise that was a word, um wait a minute........... lolz.

yall come back now ya hear?

[dopey69]

I've into this a lot over the years. The "droh" crowd are pretty insistent that they are in the right, too, and since the word has a very shaky etymology we'll all have to just agree to disagree.

Not much to add about in game mangling, but I I get annoyed about nuclear, foliage, dalek, and jaguar.

PS: You should hear what people do to my character names! "He's a hater?" lolz.

I have always thought it was a$$eater :) *blushes* honest

[English_Warrior]

Sorry but Americans have taken over and standardized English.

You guys certainly did do something to English....but it ain't standardized.....the word I'm thinking of sounds almost the same but starts with a B. :)

[dopey69]

why must necromancers cast animate thread???? can't we just let sleeping '07 threads lie?

i know i thought this was great dr wofan is back the butterflies once again can fly on thelanis then O.o
i looked at the date of an edit lol got me still a lot of funny things in here tho :)

[Kominalito]

I think the worst one is

Al-oo-min-um

It's al-ah-min-e-yum how is that so hard to understand?

(aluminium)

clearly you are european.

http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/13.html

there are 2 spellings, and 2 pronunciations. there is a reason north americans say ah-LOO-mi-num. its because its spelled ALUMINUM here.

and ftr, i'm canadian, and i'm all for spelling things the proper way as in COLOUR and not COLOR, but for some reason, aluminium just sounds weird to me.

also ::: related posts...

http://www.wimp.com/haspoint/
http://www.wimp.com/frylanguage/

[Tourette]

House Phiarlan...

way back when, when the game was new and you entered, the narrator would say,

"Welcome to House "Fairlane". Honest. To hear people murder the pronunciation now, ugh. Fine, fine - just call it House P.

[Anthorin]

Hmmm. 6 pages and no one mentions melee? Its French. Its pronounced mel_a - not meal_e. That one grates one big time every time I hear it.

[Aloro]

"Mêlée" is properly pronounced meh-LAY. Not muh-lay, not meal-y, not mee-lee, and definitely not melly, to rhyme with smelly. Americans typically pronounce it may-lay, with equal stress on both syllables, so that's also correct in a sense, for Americans anyhow. :)

[Inkblack]

Antarctic skinitar of greater construction bane

I heard that one from someone who seriously thought he pronounced it correctly. Now it's a running joke on Khyber.

[pSINNa]

Yeah, I love when tome \ˈtōm\ (as in Rome) being pronounced as tomb \ˈtüm\ (as in womb)


Gelatinous Cube --- Jello \ˈje-(ˌ)lō\


For all my friends in Australia (I will be outback there soon ;)):

Aluminum - \ə-ˈlü-mə-nəm\ not al·u·min·i·um \ˌal-yə-ˈmi-nē-əm\

:D

Arg! now you've done it! This, pet hate of me and most of my mates, and what's worse is you know it!.

Rofl, (thanks for the laugh, us Aussies really do get the screaming skitters when we hear this one, lol).

Coit out~

[Lorz]

Im not sure how your pronounce it...but i do know how you spell it.


NECRO THREAD!!!!!

:P

[Tanka]

"Mêlée" is properly pronounced meh-LAY. Not muh-lay, not meal-y, not mee-lee, and definitely not melly, to rhyme with smelly. Americans typically pronounce it may-lay, with equal stress on both syllables, so that's also correct in a sense, for Americans anyhow. :)
Actually, both "may-lay" and "meh-lay" are correct. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melee)

[stoolcannon]

You guys certainly did do something to English....but it ain't standardized.....the word I'm thinking of sounds almost the same but starts with a B. :)

We did that too!